1. What freemapper does

freemapper fetches the official geodata of an area and builds the starting point for a schoolyard map (1:1000), sprint map (1:4000) or forest map (1:15 000 to 1:7500). The geodata includes the orthophoto, the terrain model, and the buildings and land use from the cadastre (ALKIS). Data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) is added.

• Drawn as finished map objects is only what is reliable: buildings, water from the cadastre, and on sprint maps also paved areas (streets, squares) and unpaved paths with a known surface.
• Given as templates is everything you have to judge yourself: orthophoto, hillshade, slope, local relief, height above ground (nDSM), contours, knolls and banks from the terrain, fences, hedges, benches, playground equipment, out-of-bounds areas, ponds, streams, fountains and bridges.
• You still draw and check the map in the terrain, in OpenOrienteering Mapper (OOM) or OCAD.

On request freemapper also writes the print-ready map as a PDF, a check print with every candidate and a training map that you print and run on as it is (chapter 10).